Did a little more work with PHP yesterday and today. Sort of got a randomizer to work, but ended up using two tutorials to do it. You can see the results here if you so choose. Now all I have to do is figure out how to make the Japanese text show up. I know I had figured out how to do it once, but I’ve forgotten.

I also need to find more tutorials for PHP. I’m starting to run out.

However, I think I’ve almost gotten to the point to where I can start putting together the new Liliy.net. Exciting!

More baby steps in the world of php and mysql today. I created a database using the tutorials at W3 Schools. And thanks to them I can order data according to two columns – which means I should be able to do what I wanted!

My goal is to set up a section of my website to host my original writing. I want to use php databases to store all of the data to make updating and editing easier. So yay for getting a few steps closer to that goal. Such fun, such fun.

Ha ha! Today I made my first page using PHP. It’s a test page and it’s really simple – but it works. That’s all that matters.

But most importantly, I finally really know how people can update multiple pages with one file – cheers for the ‘include’ command. It makes me happy and I can guarantee it’ll show up on future pages. (I’m sure there’s an even easier way to do this, but humor me for now…)

But, even if I didn’t do too much today with PHP, I also got some other stuff done. I got to brush up on my hard coding html as well! Heh, writing tables from scratch has always gotten me. Darn that <td> line…I always forget to write it down when I’ve only got one row. Hardcoding is fun everyone! And I finally figured out how to make dreamweaver automatically update and upload my files without uploading them the long way with an ftp program. Saved me a lot of time when I was testing my new php pages. Very convienient.

Anyway, I’m excited over writing maybe five lines of code. If you’re intereted you can see my wonders here:  PHP Testing Ground.

Next on my list: conquering databases.

I’ve finally started work on expanding my web knowledge from html. It was a sad day when I discovered the html I hard worked hard to teach myself via searching many a page source has been/is being filtered out of the web development community. Sadness.

So, I’ve been working more with CSS lately and today I started reading up on PHP. W3 Schools is a wonderful website. I’ve read the basics and started on a bit more of the advanced coding. It’s a little surpising that it’s so similiar to ActionScript 2.0, though I think I should have seen that coming.

In any case, it seems it won’t be as hard as I originally thought to learn and then I can put it to use on the new liliy.net. Should be exciting.

And then, maybe the job hunt will be just a tad easier, too. But it’ll be worth it regardless – scripting is cool. But that’s my love of languages talking. I guess it extends to computer talk as well as human. :D